 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech, telecom, and data center professionals. I'm Buffy Arquitas of JSA, coming to you live from fabulous Las Vegas for Channel Partners 2023, my most favorite show of the year. And joining me today is Todd Cushing, president of 1623 Arnhem. Todd, welcome back to JSA TV. Thank you for having me, Buffy, I have a pleasure. Yeah, and this is exciting for you to be here at Channel Partners in Las Vegas at the Venetian because... We've announced a channel program. You announced a channel program here at Channel Partners. There's no better place to announce a channel program than here in Vegas for Channel Partners 23. So why don't you tell us a little bit more about your brand new channel program and all that partners can learn about it. So we've partnered with JSA, so JSA actually helped us develop it. Your expertise in the team has helped a lot. So we've got our portal set up, we've got our marketing, our contracts, everything is in order. We're excited to have an announcement. We're working with indirect channel, we're working with agents and people that we have customers or new relationships. This has been a great venue to really meet people. The amount of real estate you can cover to go from meeting to meeting, there's just nothing else like it. It's really a great event to announce. Yeah, there really isn't anything like Channel Partners. And of course, here in fabulous Las Vegas, this is the biggest channel partners to date with over 7,500 partners, suppliers, MSPs here in Las Vegas for this wonderful show. So I'm so excited that you were able to announce this brand new channel partner program here in Las Vegas. And there's so many reasons why 1623 is ideal for partners. Can you tell us a little bit more about that? Sure, we are a interconnection facility. So we've got 59 carriers, 22 broadband providers. We've got a rich ecosystem. So when people connect or interconnect at 1623 Park and Farnham, it's really a situation where we can be regional, we can be global and how far we can reach. So there are a lot of people that have different relationships with either our customers or carriers that are either in our facility or might be joining our facility. And the location? Omaha, right in the middle. Right in the middle. Tell us a little bit more about that location. The Omaha is a really cost-effective place to do IT. There's a lot of data centers there, so it's really a rich environment to hire IT talent. There's also the Air Force Base in the center of the United States. We've got an environment where it's cool in the wintertime. So you can run free cooling for about 7,000 hours of the year. So it's really a cost-effective Midwestern, hardworking, honest, great space to do IT. When you talk about cool, you are one of our authors of greener data coming up. Greener data, our second edition of our movement, the Greener Data Book and our movement. Want to tell us a little bit more about some of those sustainability initiatives at 1623? It's pretty neat that JSA does that, although I think it was neat last year. It's great to be part of it. We've got a completely refreshed data center. So it's new electrical, new mechanical, everything is new, it's efficient. So as we leverage that cooling I talked about earlier, we can free cool for a lot of hours of the year more than a lot of regions can do. But we also have a recycling of our cooling. So we're on a downtown cooling loop where they want the heat off of our building. So we're actually co-opping as opposed to running a standalone solar plant and is redundant. It is functionally very available just like any other data center you'd expect to be. We have the benefit of actually participating in a co-op to actually get rid of some of our heat in an efficient way. Pretty neat. Yeah, and we're honored to have you as a part of the Greener Data Movement. So stay tuned for more information about that. We will be having our fabulous event at ITW coming up in just a few days, weeks here. And Todd, why don't you tell us a little bit about some of the emerging trends in the industry that you're seeing? We're seeing a lot more peering, a lot of data being passed between us peer to peer. It really seems to be on the growth. We've had new CDNs joining the team. Some of them I can't talk about yet, but they're important known names to the Midwest that we have carriers very excited to build up here with them as well. So we've seen also a lot of AI where people are catching up or chasing AI. So we've seen some pretty dense footprints come out where people are really trying to in a quick pace. It's very competitive. Pick your platform for AI where people are trying to make up a lot of ground in a hurry. Yeah, I mean, AI is everywhere you turn today. It's in almost every headline, every LinkedIn story. So, you know, it is the hot topic is the hot topic. Well, your channel program is the hot topic here at Channel Partners. But aside from that, is there any other news that you have coming up? No, you mentioned ITW. So we're going to have a couple of folks there. So Greg Elliott or Matt Reed from our team will be there. We're excited to make new connections, the old friends at that event as well. The facility is in the process of upgrading. We'll call phase two. So it was really a phase one, phase two. So we're implementing the equipment for phase two right now. So we're super excited about that. So just continuing to grow. Yeah. Well, is there anything else you want to add today, Todd? Just come check us out. Look at our channel program. You can find it on our website. We'd be excited to talk to anybody who has any questions or you can reach out to me at Todd.pushing at 1623farnham.com. And for the channel program at 1623farnham.com on LinkedIn, on Twitter. Yes. All those great places. All right. Well, thank you so much, Todd, for joining us today. Thanks for having me here. Yeah, it was a pleasure. And stay tuned for more fabulous episodes of JSA TV live from Channel Partners 2023. Happy networking.